New Zealand As It Is. By John Bradshaw. (Sampson Low
and Co.)—This is certainly the most complete book on New Zealand that has yet come under our notice. The author describes the country, the population, the life which they lead, the characteristics of their government, their farming, their commerce, the education which they can secure for their children, in fact, their whole social state. The author's object is to " consider the characteristics of the country rather as they affect those who are about to leave their native land than as they appear to colonists themselves." To enable him to do this, he has had a considerable experience of life elsewhere than in New Zealand, and he confirms and supplements the information which he supplies by official documents, statistic and other. The general reader will fled much interest in it ; the intending emigrant can hardly have a more complete, and, we should say, trustworthy guide.
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